Bradbury is probably most well-known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, his anthologies The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, and the horror novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, which all have been made into films or television series. He also wrote the screenplays for the 1956 version of Moby Dick (co-starring Orson Welles) and the 1953 sci-fi film It Came From Outer Space. He also wrote the teleplay for The Twilight Zone episode "I Sing the Body Electric". Between 1985 and 1992 Bradbury hosted the anthology series The Ray Bradbury Theater, which featured television adaptations based on his short stories. One of the episodes called "The Playground" starred William Shatner.

Gries, a former US Marine and newspaper reporter, began his career in the early 1950s and worked on television until his death due to a heart attack. Starting with directing live television shows such as Chevron Hall of Stars and Science Fiction Theatre, he eventually moved to direct several series, including Checkmate, Route 66, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Batman and I Spy. In 1971 Gries directed the sci-fi pilot Earth II, which co-starred Gary Lockwood.

A prolific and always in-demand director, Kowalski was nominated for two Emmy Awards during his career, spanning more than four decades. During this time he directed numerous episodes of Perry Mason, The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible, Banacek, The Rockford Files, Columbo, Baretta, Knight Rider, Airwolf, Magnum P.I., Jake and the Fatman and Diagnosis Murder, among others.

Chicago-born Kaufman wrote and directed many successful films during his career, including the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, co-starring Leonard Nimoy, The Right Stuff (1983), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Henry and June (1990) and Quills (2000). As a writer, he penned films such as The Outlaw Josie Wales (1974) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, co-starring John Rhys-Davies).

Vanna Marie Bonta (3 April1958 – 8 July2014; age 56) was a writer, actress, poet, and inventor who wrote an undeveloped story, "Somewhen", for TNG's first season. She was best known as the author of Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel, which posits life as a multiuniverse and introduces the adventures of Aira Flight, an amnesiac girl with no navel. [1]

She was the inventor of the 2suit, a garment that facilitates intimacy and stabilizes physical proximity in zero gravity environments, and was featured on the series The Universe in the episode "Sex in Space", which premiered on The History Channel in December 2009. In the documentary, Bonta tested her invention in zero gravity and talked about how her 2suit could be used to achieve intimacy in microgravity, a step towards the colonization of other planets. [3][4]

Petrie started his career in television in the late 1940s, and worked in the medium for the next three decades, helming such series as East Side / West Side, The Defenders (starring William Shatner), The Nurses, Medical Center and Banyon. In the 1980s and 1990s Petrie enjoyed a short career in feature films, directing among others (and apart the previously mentioned Cocoon: The Return): Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), Six Pack (1982), Rocket Gibraltar (1988) and the 1994 version of Lassie.

Miranda also collaborated with director David Fincher on several films, starting with 1995's Se7en (featuring Reg E. Cathey, Leland Orser, and Daniel Zacapa), on which Miranda was a gaffer for additional photography. He again served as gaffer on Fincher's next two films, The Game (1997; featuring Elizabeth Dennehy) and Fight Club (1999; featuring David Andrews, Tim de Zarn, Zach Grenier, David Lee Smith, and Matt Winston). Michael Kaplan was the costume designer for all three of these films. Miranda later served as an uncredited additional photographer on Fincher's Zodiac (2007; featuring Zach Grenier, John Carroll Lynch, David Lee Smith, Matt Winston, and art direction by Keith Cunningham), after which he was enlisted by Fincher to serve as Director of Photography on 2008's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (featuring Spencer Daniels). It was Miranda's work on this latter film which earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Achievement in Cinematography.

Kim H. Winther is an Assistant Director and Producer who was considered to work as First Assistant Director on the upcoming 2016 sequel Star Trek Beyond. [8] With the departure of Roberto Orci as the film's director and Claudio Miranda and the director of photography, Winther was replaced by first assistant director Nick Satriano.

Winther started his career in the 1980s when he worked as second assistant director on the television series Anne of Green Gables (1985), the television sport drama The Terry Fox Story (1983, starring Rosalind Chao and Saul Rubinek and with second assistant director Hagan Beggs), and the television crime drama Reckless Disregard (1986, with Ronny Cox).

More recently, Winther worked as first assistant director on the television action movie Exit Strategy (2014, written and produced by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and art direction by Lauren E. Polizzi), the drama Heaven Is for Real (2014) on which he also worked as co-producer, the science fiction film Edge of Tomorrow (2014) also as co-producer, the thriller The Coup (2015, with Spencer Garrett and Jim Lau), and the crime drama Term Life (2015, with Jonathan Banks). As Executive Producer he wrapped the comedy Stereotypically You (2014).